Cate Edwards 'devastated' by affair

Cate Edwards, the daughter of John Edwards, was “devastated” to learn about the affair that shattered her father’s political career, she said in an interview that is slated to air this week.

“Yes, he told me” about the affair, said Cate Edwards, according to an advance transcript of her interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, slated to air on Friday. “I guess he and my mom decided that that was, you know, how it needed to be done. So yeah, I was devastated. And I was disappointed. I mean, these are my parents. I had grown up with a lot of love in my family. And it was hard to see them go through this.”

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Edwards, who has a Harvard Law degree, is the president of the Elizabeth Edwards Foundation, an education-oriented charitable organization named for her mother, who died of cancer in 2010. Her father, a 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful who fathered a child through an affair with a woman named Rielle Hunter, also found himself embroiled last year in a federal campaign finance trial.